The video also showed Ma Guodong giving his account on camera. Dressed in shabby clothes, he tearfully described how hard his mother had worked to put him through university, how much being ostracized by his classmates had hurt him, and how he had repeatedly wanted to hurt or kill himself, only finding the courage to keep living when he thought of his mother. He had decided to take some time off school to recover mentally, because he genuinely could not go on otherwise.
Honestly, if Shi Yuan had not been involved himself, he might have cried watching it. But as the supposed bully, all he wanted to say was that S University really was full of hidden talents. Ma Guodong was not just a good student-he was one hell of an actor, too.
Every netizen who watched the video was moved by his heartfelt performance and shed tears of sympathy for him.
[You managed to get into a graduate program at S University despite growing up in such poverty. You earned that through your own hard work. Why should you give it up because of two scumbags?]
[Stay strong, Ma Guodong. Schools aren't above the law. They'll pay for their despicable behavior.]
[As someone who was bullied at school, I completely understand you. Taking time off is fine. See a therapist and give yourself time to recover. Also, S University is one of the top schools in the city and even the country. Is the administration seriously going to sit back and do nothing?!!!]
[The owner of some little entertainment company can just humiliate a top student however he likes? Someone needs to investigate how this Shi Yuan got into S University's graduate program. Looking at him, I certainly don't believe he got in on his own merits.]
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